Best Knox Robinson Productions Podcasts (2024)

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#90 - A Daughter's Defense (Bethany George) 1:00:30

6h ago1:00:30

1:00:30

Bethany Bourgeois George is the daughter of Alfred Bourgeois who was convicted of vicious crimes against his 2-year-old daughter, Ja’karenn. Bethany claims there is insurmountable evidence proving her father’s innocence on all charges and she has been fighting the last four years for exposure and justice. If you'd like to learn more about this case…

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Who's Right? - Cyberstalking 28:43

2d ago28:43

28:43

Between our usual Labyrinths episodes, we sit down to debate something serious or silly and ask you “Who’s Right?” Is it ok to Google your employees or investigate your ex's Facebook page... just to see what they've been up to? In this episode, we playfully debate the pros and and cons of internet stalking. Do you disagree with our perspective? We …

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#89 - Sperm Daddy (Aaron Long & Jessica Share) 1:09:54

8d ago1:09:54

1:09:54

Years after giving birth to his child, Jessica tracks down her anonymous sperm donor and they embark on an unexpected journey. In this episode of Labyrinths, we interview Jessica Share and Aaron Long as they unravel their totally backward love story. Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by supporting Labyrinths on patreon. …

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Who's Right? - Monsters 28:55

22d ago28:55

28:55

Between our usual Labyrinths episodes, we sit down to debate something serious or silly and ask you “Who’s Right?” Imagine if renowned actor Tom Hanks was exposed for drinking the blood of children– would "Forrest Gump" ever be the same? Could Mr. Hanks be redeemed? Luckily there are no such allegations. (Stay cool, Tom Hanks!) In this episode, we …

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#88 - Monsters (Claire Dederer) 1:00:38

25d ago1:00:38

1:00:38

We are now routinely faced with a dilemma: News breaks that an artist beloved has done something horrible. How does that change our experience of their art? There’s no one better to help us explore this thorny territory than Claire Dederer, author of "Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma." Get a copy of Claire's book at: https://www.powells.com/book/monsters-…

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Who's Right? - Suicide 33:00

1M ago33:00

33:00

Is suicide ever justifiable? Can you go out on a high note? Is it always a result of mental illness? The content warning should be obvious on this one and it should go without saying that this theoretical discussion does not endorse suicide. https://988lifeline.org/ Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by supporting Labyrin…

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#87 - How Do You Want to Die? (Susan Pitiger) 47:07

1M ago47:07

47:07

Our local death doula, Susan Pitiger, brings light to the process of dying and what you can do to prepare for the inevitable. Are all your affairs in order? Are all our affairs in order? In this episode, we're asking you and ourselves: "How do you want to die?" Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by supporting Labyrinths o…

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#86 - Zen and the Art of Emergency Medicine (Kat Moore) 48:18

2M ago48:18

48:18

The emergency room and the ICU are not just emotionally draining and traumatic environments for patients, but for healthcare workers as well. ER doctor Kat Moore tells us how Zen Buddhism is working its way into emergency rooms to improve the wellbeing of both patients and doctors. Learn more about the Contemplative Medicine Fellowship at: https://…

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#85 - First, Do No Harm (Richard Pallardy) 43:47

2M ago43:47

43:47

Despite the best efforts of healthcare professionals, medical errors are responsible for tens of thousands of annual deaths. Today, Richard Pallardy, a freelance writer from Chicago, tells us the story of the medical odyssey his mother went through in the fall of 2015. Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by supporting Laby…

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Who's Right? - Valentine's Day and All Things Love 45:49

3M ago45:49

45:49

Valentine's Day...Is it good or is it whack? Is love at first sight a thing? How does love last, or get lost? And what about that tricksy thing: self love? Episodes of Who's Right?--our series of playful, personal, and philosophical debates--are normally only avaialable to our patreon subscribers, but in the spirit of free love, and because we've g…

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#84 - The Modern Trauma Toolkit (Dr. Christy Gibson) 57:54

3M ago57:54

57:54

"Trauma" has become a controversial word in the current culture wars. It's a point of pride for some, an excuse for others. But trauma is undoubtedly real, and it effects the body. Dr. Christy Gibson, author of The Modern Trauma Toolkit, has studied the neurophysiological effects of trauma and how we can alter the body's reflexive responses to find…

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#83 - A Father, a Son, a Brawl, and a Gun (Nicole Ivie) 49:53

3M ago49:53

49:53

A few months into the pandemic, in the early morning on July 5th, Nicole Ivie woke up to the sounds of gunfire. She would soon discover that six men had come to her house, that her son had been badly beaten, that her husband had brought a gun into the equation, and that her son was the shooter. From that moment on, nothing would ever be the same. S…

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#82 - Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (Dr. Kari Nixon) 1:05:00

4M ago1:05:00

1:05:00

Dr. Kari Nixon studies the intersection of death, disease, and community, and how illness impacts identity. It's a topic she pursued without even realizing that she herself was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, which despite the flashy true crime narratives, often manifests in much more subtle ways than you might expect. Get early access to…

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#81 - Reflections on 2023 44:26

4M ago44:26

44:26

Amanda and Chris reflect on what they gave up for 2023, what they'll give up for 2024, what their focus words are for the coming year, and what they're optimistic about and dreading for society. It's going to a be a turbulent future. How can we keep our balance? Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by supporting Labyrinths …

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#80 - A Religious Conviction in Aliens (Michael Shermer) 1:05:02

4M ago1:05:02

1:05:02

Why do people believe what they believe? Are religious convictions any different than believing that aliens have visited earth? Dr. Michael Shermer, founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine, host of The Michael Shermer Show, and author of many books, most recently Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational, helps us calibrate our skeptic's c…

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#79 - Still on Trial in Italy... 1:06:04

5M ago1:06:04

1:06:04

17 years after her arrest in 2007, Amanda is still, somehow, on trial in Italy... Her conviction for criminal slander was overturned in October, 2023, and she was sent back for retrial. What exactly led to this charge in the first place? What will the scope of this new trial be? And what does Amanda think about the recent news that Rudy Guede, the …

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#78 - Revelations of an Opened Marriage (Minda Lane) 56:49

5M ago56:49

56:49

A year shy of turning 40, Minda Lane realized she wasn't happy in her marriage, and she proposed to her husband Jack that they try out polyamory. She didn't antipate how this would dredge up her old trauma, and force her to reckon with who she really was. Minda Lane is the author of "Men, Myself, and I: Revelations of an Opened Marriage," available…

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#77 - Live at THING Festival (Chris Ballew) 1:06:52

5M ago1:06:52

1:06:52

In August of 2023, we took Labyrinths LIVE to THING Festival in Port Townsend, WA. In front of a packed house at the Wheeler Theater, we chatted with Chris Ballew, lead singer from The Presidents of the United States of America, the man behind Caspar Babypants, and one of our favorite contemporary musicians who's been putting out jammy psychedlic s…

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#76 - Excellent Advice for Living (Kevin Kelly) 55:53

6M ago55:53

55:53

There's some wisdom you can only find when you're lost, which has led Kevin Kelly, senior Maverick and co-founder Wired magazine, to get lost intentionally through decades of travelling. Along the way, he's collected some gems of wisdom and invented many of his own. Kevin Kelly is the author of Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known E…

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#75 - Bean Dad Redemption Arc (John Roderick) 1:28:04

6M ago1:28:04

1:28:04

Musician and podcaster John Roderick's most unenviable accomplishment was becoming Twitter’s main character from January 3rd through January 5th of 2021. We’re cracking open that can of beans to get the real story, and to talk about surviving cancellation, losing friends, and what we can learn about broader cultural trends. Get early access to ad-f…

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#74 - What's Our Problem? (Tim Urban) 1:01:42

6M ago1:01:42

1:01:42

Author, blogger, and cartoonist Tim Urban of WaitButWhy.com helps us dissect what's causing the political, social, and tribal dysfunction in our society with the help of golems, genies, the thought ladder, and the speech curve. Check out Tim's new book, What's Our Problem? Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by supporting …

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#73 - Joyride (Kristen & Ville Jokinen) 1:09:59

7M ago1:09:59

1:09:59

Kristen and Ville Jokinen bought some bicycles and decided to go for a ride. They weren't experienced cyclists at all, so they thought, why not start in Alaska and bike all the way to the southernmost tip of Argentina? What could go wrong? Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by supporting Labyrinths on patreon. www.patreon…

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#72 - Debunking Innocence (Andrew Hammel) 1:20:48

7M ago1:20:48

1:20:48

After very publicly advocating for the innocence of a man named Jens Soering, who spent over 30 years in prison for a double murder he says he didn’t commit, we encountered new information that gave us serious reason to doubt his innocence, and we found ourselves in ethical dilemma. This led us to connect with journalist Andrew Hammel to give a fai…

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#71 - Not Rainn Wilson (Joel McHale) 58:14

8M ago58:14

58:14

Todays guest is an actor from our home town of Seattle. You may know him from Community, The Soup, The White House Correspondent's dinner, or his newest show Animal Control! We dig into dyslexia, pediatric heart surgery, and the ethics of comedy. Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by supporting Labyrinths on patreon. www.…

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#70 - Lost in Faith (Megan Phelps-Roper) 1:08:32

9M ago1:08:32

1:08:32

Megan Phelps-Roper is the author of the book, Unfollow: a journey from hatred to hope, about her upbringing in and departure from the Westboro Baptist Church. Megan is also the host of the podcast series The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, produced by The Free Press, which dissects the backlash against Rowling from a perspective informed by Megan's o…

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#69 - You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent (Justin Brooks) 1:07:37

10M ago1:07:37

1:07:37

Justin Brooks is the author of You Might Go To Prison, Even Though You're Innocent. He is also the director of the California Innocence Project, which has freed 36 wrongly convicted people from over 570 years of wrongful imprisonment. But what sort of toll does that work take on the people who do it? And what do you learn along the way? Get early a…

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#68 - Blood Money - Part 5: True Crime With A Conscience 56:52

12M ago56:52

56:52

In part 5, the final installment of Blood money, we're looking to the future to ask: how can true crime be more ethical? What does true crime with a conscience look like? Many of our previous guests, and few new ones like Mark Olshaker and Jon Ronson offer some thoughts on where the genre is heading, and how we might all shape it for the better. Ge…

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#67 - Blood Money - Part 4: Murdertopia 1:06:55

12M ago1:06:55

1:06:55

True crime has spawned a fandom like no other, with controversial merch, conventions, and online sleuths. Sarah Turney, Jen Tisdale, Paul Holes, and Katherine Laidlaw help us disect this fandom, and see the costs and consequences of true crime obsession. This is part 4 of Blood Money, a five-part miniseries. Get early access to ad-free episodes, bo…

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#66 - Blood Money - Part 3: The Content Machine 1:06:31

12M ago1:06:31

1:06:31

In part 3 of Blood Money, we're stepping inside the content machine. Filmmaker Brian McGinn and author Nicki Egan take us through the incentives and pitfalls facing any true crime content creator. Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by supporting Labyrinths on patreon. www.patreon.com/knoxrobinson www.knoxrobinson.com Twit…

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#65 - Blood Money - Part 2: The Fishbowl 1:10:09

12M ago1:10:09

1:10:09

In part 2 of Blood Money, we're stepping into the ground zero where all true crime stories originate: with the victims. Kris Pedretti, Christine Marie, and Sarah Turney help us explore what it means to be at the center of a true crime story, and how the media can be another source of trauma. Content warning: sexual assault and sex trafficking. Get …

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#64 - Blood Money - Part 1: One Bloody Thing After Another 1:07:31

12M ago1:07:31

1:07:31

True crime has become a massive industry that takes real life suffering as grist for the content mill. Is it possible to tell such stories in an ethical way? How did we even get here? To answer these questions, we're diving into history to see where true crime came from, how it evolved, and where it is today. Along the way, we'll be talking with vi…

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BONUS - Ask Us Anything 39:05

1y ago39:05

39:05

We've got some updates for you, a preview of BLOOD MONEY, our upcoming miniseries about the history and ethics of true crime, and we answer your questions, about trauma gremlins, smiling through hell, and how to deal with bad faith arguments. Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by supporting Labyrinths on patreon. www.patr…

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#63 - Documenting Innocence (Joe Berlinger) 45:27

1y ago45:27

45:27

When Joe Berlinger packed up his things to go to West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993, he thought he was going to make a documentary about a satanic ritual murder. Instead, he found a witch hunt determined to condemn three innocent boys. Over the next two decades, Joe and his partner Bruce Sinofsky made three documentaries about the case. Those films pla…

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#62 - Protect Your Heart (Jason Baldwin) 1:14:19

1y ago1:14:19

1:14:19

By the time he was sixteen, Jason Baldwin had already felt the sting of prejudice from his community in West Memphis, Arkansas. Kids at the trailer park where he lived had long been shunned by more well off residents of the town. Still, nothing could have prepared him for how vicious these prejudices would turn once the bodies of three eight year o…

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#61 - Love and Justice (Anna Vasquez) 1:01:00

1+ y ago1:01:00

1:01:00

Anna Vasquez was just nineteen when she and three of her friends were accused of a horrific crime that they were completely innocent of. Their case was swept up in the mass hysteria about satanic cults that had seized the country in the 80s and 90s. It would take twenty four years for Anna and her friends to be fully exonerated, including over a de…

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#60 - The Why of the Why (Dylan Marron) 47:32

1+ y ago47:32

47:32

Most people are pretty bad at having difficult conversations. We don't get much practice--the internet makes sure that we mostly see content from people we agree with. When we do see opposing viewpoints, it's usually in the form of hateful comments. But when Dylan Marron started receiving a deluge of online abuse in response to his viral video seri…

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#59 - It Only Takes One Person to Change (Jennifer Lovely) 51:25

1+ y ago51:25

51:25

Jennifer felt trapped--her two sons were addicted to drugs, in and out of jail and rehab, and living on the streets. What had she done wrong as a mother? How could she save them? Was trying to save them her own addiction? Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by supporting Labyrinths on patreon. www.patreon.com/knoxrobinson …

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#58 - Dark Side of the Moon (Christian) 1:05:41

1+ y ago1:05:41

1:05:41

When our guest today, Christian, was checked into a psych ward in the midst of a manic episode a few years ago, he had no prior history of mental illness. He'd certainly never had delusions of the kind that had come to consume him over the last few days. As it turned out, the culprit for the drastic change in Christian's mental state was not one pe…

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#57 - There's Other Ways to Do the Things (Lee Turnbull) 50:46

1+ y ago50:46

50:46

Few people can say that they have remade themselves as completely as Lee Turnbull. He went from being a violent young man in London to being a happy, well-adjusted soccer coach in the States. Getting there required not just a change in his lifestyle, but a dramatic change in his values. Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more …

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#56 - Before Evil (Brandon Gauthier) 54:13

1+ y ago54:13

54:13

Before Adolf Hitler was a genocidal autocrat, he was a young art student who loved his mother. Before Vladimir Lenin was a Marxist revolutionary, he was the privileged son of loving parents, radicalized by his older brother. And before Joseph Stalin was a ruthless dictator, he was an abused child who was terrified of his father. Why should we know …

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#55 - If This Doesn't Fix You, Nothing Will (Molly Bloom) 40:55

1+ y ago40:55

40:55

You may have heard Molly Bloom's name from tabloid headlines about a "poker princess" or from the 2017 movie, Molly's Game. But Molly has a deeper story to tell. Though her life has taken an unusual number of twists and turns--from poker millionaire to convicted felon to bestselling author--Molly's reflections on it all are universal. They include …

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#54 - Acknowledging the No (Chris Ballew) 1:02:22

1+ y ago1:02:22

1:02:22

Chris Ballew never expected or even particularly wanted mainstream success. But when his band, the Presidents of the United States of America, hit it big, he had to reckon with what success meant to him and figure out how to say no when everyone around him wanted him to say yes. Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by suppo…

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#53 - Pet Theft (Bobby Kumparak) 57:00

1+ y ago57:00

57:00

Before Bobby Kumparak adopted Lucy, a French bulldog, he had never thought of a dog as a member of his family. But Lucy was different. The bond Bobby and his wife, Angela, shared with Lucy was more than owner and pet. So Bobby and Angela were utterly devastated when Lucy was stolen from their backyard one night. In the quest to find Lucy, they lear…

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#52 - The Point of No Return (Roz Savage) 53:07

1+ y ago53:07

53:07

Twenty years ago, Roz Savage was a management consultant living in London with her husband. From the outside, it looked like a good life, but Roz was miserable. Until she blew up that life and found a new one on the other side of the ocean. She'd just have to row for three and half months to get there. Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus co…

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#51 - Live at the VCA 56:18

1+ y ago56:18

56:18

A few months ago, we sat down to do something we'd never done before: a live Labyrinths episode! And we knew there was no better place to do it than our home, Vashon Island. Most people haven't heard of our rural island near Seattle, but we know that it's a rich community of eccentrics with a lot of stories to offer. Today, we've brought you three …

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#50 - Everyone's Biased But Me (Itiel Dror) 49:59

1+ y ago49:59

49:59

Dr. Itiel Dror is used to facing resistance to his work. It comes with the territory when you're a neuroscientist studying cognitive bias in experts: no one wants to believe they have biases they're not aware of. But the pushback to a paper he published last year was extreme even by Dr. Dror's standards. After the paper came out, the ensuing backla…

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#49 - On the Edge (Andrew Gold) 38:09

1+ y ago38:09

38:09

Journalist Andrew Gold explores the extreme in his podcast On the Edge, where he’s interviewed controversial people, including a former white supremacist, an ex-crime boss, and a self-professed psychopath. He joins Amanda and Chris to talk about the most taboo topic he's delved into yet: non-offending pedophiles. Forewarning: this episode grapples …

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#48 - The Post-Partum Shadow (Amy Kuber) 51:43

2y ago51:43

51:43

Last year, we brought you through the labyrinths of infertility and pregnancy, but what happens after birth? What happens when you find yourself utterly alone in that 4th trimester, a shadow hanging over you and your child? Amy Kuber brings us through her post-partum darkness and how she found the light again. Get early access to ad-free episodes, …

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#47 - The Summit Can't Be the Goal (Alison Levine) 52:42

2y ago52:42

52:42

Is it possible to succeed when you fail? Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton did just that, and so has modern adventurer and mountaineer Alison Levine, leader of the First American Women's Everest expedition. Levine has survived subzero temperatures, hurricane force winds, and sudden avalanches. She's had plenty of triumphs, but she's learned just…

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#46 - The Aha Moment (AJ Jacobs) 46:07

2y ago46:07

46:07

Amanda and Chris get lost in the wide world of puzzles with AJ Jacobs, author of the The Puzzler: One Man's quest to solve the most baffling puzzles ever, from crosswords to jigsaws to the meaning of life. And pay close attention, because this episode has a puzzle embedded within it! Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by …

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